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karlgkk commented on Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT   meyerweb.com/eric/thought... · Posted by u/bkardell
nashashmi · 8 days ago
The people who use these features are busy using these features. And they are not part of browser development. So they revolt in a nasty manner. Like when ftp was torn down.

It is nice to see workarounds. But those workarounds are not conducive to HTML purists who do things without JS. They are the real web developers. They have always relied on the browser to improve and become faster but not start abandoning old technologies.

Chrome OS also became popular on this point that a browser can do things like being universal viewers and so the need for programs goes away. There are so many lite OS who are also using the browser to do everything.

Now I understand that the web has failed XML and XML failed the web in favor of JSON. I also whole heartedly believe that XML and XSLT can do so much more for the web and do this natively.

But open systems are not in the interest of the big FAANG and Microsoft ecosystem. They abandoned RSS. They abandon APIs on a regular basis. And this turn of events is causing browser vendors to start developing for big companies rather than open indie developers.

There is much gain from XML and XSLT. But I want to see a specific development. I want to see XSL import an XML. I want to see the reverse. XSL will be the view. XML will be the model. And the browser will be the controller. MVC paradigm.

karlgkk · 8 days ago
> Like when ftp was torn down

FTP needed to be torn down. It’s sad, but true. There was no reason for anyone to be using it past 2010 - and in fact many reasons actively against using it

karlgkk commented on Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move   neowin.net/news/hyundai-w... · Posted by u/duxup
kawfey · 13 days ago
I'm hopeful but pessimistic about Slate. There is still time for them to A.) raise prices because of "unforeseen" issues, B.) enshittify with tech or wacky pricing structures.
karlgkk · 13 days ago
I'm hopeful but pessimistic as well.

I'm just tired of hearing about Slate. A relatively small amount of people want a product and they use a company that hasn't shipped as validation of their imaginary market size (this company exists, so tons of people want it!)

I hope they're successful.

karlgkk commented on Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto   embeddeduse.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
WhyNotHugo · 14 days ago
As per the article, Yocto runs GUI applications as root, and you need workarounds to run them as non-root.

Running arbitrary GUI applications as root is such a huge red flag that I'd suggest just looking at another distribution instead of resorting to workarounds.

karlgkk · 14 days ago
> Running arbitrary GUI applications as root is such a huge red flag

Yes, but...

For many embedded applications, getting any sort of execution on the GUI thread/process is game over anyways.

idk what this says about anything

karlgkk commented on Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move   neowin.net/news/hyundai-w... · Posted by u/duxup
mft_ · 14 days ago
Slate [0] say differently...

[0] https://www.slate.auto/en

karlgkk · 14 days ago
Slate has not shipped yet.
karlgkk commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs    · Posted by u/nativeforks
eimrine · 17 days ago
Do I need to be the US Military for that?

Intel ME is not a feature for user, it is intended to control any modern CPU except the ones coming to US Army/Navy. It is needed to make Stuxnet-class attacks. The latest chip with possibiliy to have the ME provenly disabled is the 3rd gen.

karlgkk · 16 days ago
Purism sells a Comet Lake box with the ME disabled (or so they say).

Many ARM vendors sell powerful arm computers without any ME-analog on board.

> It is needed to make Stuxnet-class attacks.

I have issues with the presence of the ME and I think we agree on a lot of things, but this statement is lunacy lol

karlgkk commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs    · Posted by u/nativeforks
eimrine · 18 days ago
It will have Intel ME which makes the whole open-source ideology... compromised?
karlgkk · 18 days ago
there are a handful of vendors that will sell you an intel chip with the me disabled, as well as arm vendors that ship boards without an me-equivalent at all

the point of my post still stands

karlgkk commented on 1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”   historyofinformation.com/... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
thbb123 · 18 days ago
Or simply yelling "fire" for no reason in a crowded space must be a sin, pretty much like it's a limit of free speech.
karlgkk · 18 days ago
in the catholic church, it'd be probably invoke three paths to sin. scandal, which is causing others to do evil without their intent to do so. justice: requiring the dignity and safety of others. and of course, lying.
karlgkk commented on 1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”   historyofinformation.com/... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
notorandit · 18 days ago
As a Catholic I can say that was B.S.

Reading cannot be a sin. Thinking cannot be a sin. Speaking cannot be a sin.

It's a good thing that the index has been abolished in 1966.

karlgkk · 18 days ago
> Reading cannot be a sin. Thinking cannot be a sin. Speaking cannot be a sin.

the catholic church is an ancient institution that believes it is the continuing ministry of jesus christ. and thus, it is not beholding to purely biblical rules - but also tradition.

indeed, sin is an "utterance, deed, or desire" that offends God. the concept of sin is that it is abhorrent, and caused by concupiscence.

the ccc (catcheism) indeed has a definition for sin and does not specify what is or isn't sin directly - but rather through the above criteria, both biblical and traditional. and it is defined and ruminated upon by those who are the apostles (bishops) via the magisterium, which is their upholding of this

which is to say,

reading can be a sin - if those works are abhorrent to god, the bible, or the tradition of the church

thinking can be a sin - if those thoughts are abhorrent to god, the bible, or the tradition of the church

speaking can be a sin - if those words are abhorrent to god, the bible, or the tradition of the church

and boy howdy, if those fuckin jesusmonks put together a book of read-sins and by the magisterium and the tradition of the church, then reading them is a sin. sorry about your religion

karlgkk commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs    · Posted by u/nativeforks
starkparker · 18 days ago
The build servers appear to be AMD Opteron G3s, which only support part of SSE4 (SSE4a). Full SSE4 support didn't land until Bulldozer (late 2011).
karlgkk · 18 days ago
I appreciate that this is a volunteer project, but my back of the hand math suggests that if they upgraded to a $300 laptop using a 10nm intel chip, it would pay for itself in power usage within a few years. Actually, probably less, considering an i3-N305 has more cores and substantially faster single thread.

And yes, you could get that cost down easily.

karlgkk commented on Hiroshima (1946)   newyorker.com/magazine/19... · Posted by u/pseudolus
yes_really · 25 days ago
What is the argument that the war would have ended in a few months? Is it that the US would have reached Tokyo by then? Or Japan would have surrendered before then? Both are hard to believe
karlgkk · 24 days ago
The core point of my post has not sunk in. Your personal belief does not mean that you get to confidently issued judgment on this matter, as if there are no other perspectives.

Again, this is a hotly contested issue, contested by people who in some cases, have a full-time profession in studying this issue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing...

u/karlgkk

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